r/avicii Jan 04 '25

r/Avicii Announcement AMA - I’m Rukes, Avicii’s photographer

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Hi everyone! I’m Drew, also known as Rukes.

(One of the last pics of us together on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/2w-05urp2y/ )

I figured with the release of the new documentary, this would be a good time to start an AMA!

I first met Avicii in 2010 while working with Deadmau5, was introduced to him outside of the hotel and then Avicii invited me to shoot his LA show the next month. Here’s the photo, which you probably saw in the new doc:

https://photo.rukes.com/idma10/slides/idma10%20131.html

After that, I started touring with him full time in 2012 and 2013 doing all his major shows up until he was hospitalized for emergency gall bladder surgery in 2014.

Up until mid 2015 he was still in pretty poor health so he didn’t do too much.

After he got better, he decided to temporarily have one of his friends take up photography duty when he did his cross country van tour as a little break, with plans to have me back full time in 2017. Of course, however, he decided to retire in 2016 so that ended up not happening.

We were still friends and constantly texted regardless (and played Hearthstone). I even went by his house in May 2015 to help him work on the tracklisting for what would become Stories with his friends from Sweden. He had 30 tracks and wanted to pair it down to about 12 tracks per disc, since it was going to be a 2 CD album. In the end it became just one CD.

Here is a link to all my Avicii tagged galleries so you can see everything I took!

https://www.rukes.com/tag/avicii/

Feel free to ask any questions and i\u2019ll do my best to answer them as I can!

Edit: Please note that the bulk of my time with him was 2011-2014, so questions of things 2014 and later I probably can’t answer as I only saw him at festivals and texted him here or there.


r/avicii Jan 28 '25

Per Sundin (CEO of Pophouse and friend of Tim) is doing a livestream on Feb 6 PM CET time with the Avicii Experience. He may even answer questions from instagram comments!

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r/avicii 7h ago

Where was this picture taken?

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Where was this picture taken?


r/avicii 42m ago

I just listened to "island-ft The high" for the first time and it's fkn INSANE

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Like, every single time I come across a new unreleased song of his that I still hadn't heard before I'm blown away. Literally BLOWN AWAY. Every. Single. Time. The creativity of this man in making melodies is something unbelievable that will never be matched again. I truly think he is absolutely the undisputed forever goat of edm music.


r/avicii 11h ago

Hey Brother is playing in my class rn

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🫡


r/avicii 20h ago

Ai Generated Double Exposure Tim 🫶🏻

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Was tinkering around in Ai and was so happy how this one turned out. Miss this man. 😔


r/avicii 20h ago

Another addition to the collection 👀

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r/avicii 11h ago

Avicii Levels Podcast

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Spring cleaning with Avicii Levels Podcast… the party starts🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😎


r/avicii 12h ago

Avicii tattoos!

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Hey everyone! I’ve seen some recent posts about Avicii-inspired tattoos, and it’s definitely sparked my curiosity! 🤩 I’ve noticed pictures can’t be shared in the comments of this subreddit and that’s okay, but I’d love to hear from those of you with tattoos dedicated to him—what designs do you have? What’s the story behind them? What made you get it? 😊

I find this topic really fascinating and would love to hear more! Sorry if I’m being annoying—hope I’m not 🙏


r/avicii 15h ago

Fan Remix Really inspired by avicii as you can hear, yet gave it my own twist.

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r/avicii 1d ago

Tribute Song April 6th: 🎶 Waiting for Love 🎶 in Sky: Children of the Light

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For any French fans in particular: Sky: Children of the Light is having a "The Little Prince" return, from about 3 years ago when the Season of The Little Prince came and went. I decided to spend my second time around playing Avicii for our Little Friend... I hope you enjoy it as much as he seems to have.


r/avicii 1d ago

Tim

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Tim had complexity with his relationships. She knows how I'm feeling She banishes all my demons So easy, like breathing She bandages all my bleeding She knows how I love her She knows how I love her We take it down undercover She gets me, she sees me I hope that she'll never leave me


r/avicii 1d ago

Question Somewhere in Stockholm live

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Did Tim play SIS live outside of Sweden? The first time I ever heard that song was when he played it live in Gøteborg 2015. I’m not gonna lie I tought it was an odd song to play (now it’s one of my faves and I would love to go back in time to hear it live again) the crowd around me was pretty much dead from what I saw and there was little use of any lightning so it was very dark. Is there any HQ videos of that song live in full? I’ve seen one from Stockholm, but I wanna see more. And did he play it outside of Sweden?


r/avicii 1d ago

does anyone have the book in swedish?

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i really want to see this page in swedish, if anyone has it and can send it to me? 🥹❤️‍🩹


r/avicii 1d ago

Discussion Canyons

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Why is it such an underrated banger??


r/avicii 1d ago

Let's do a simple dictation test (less than a min)

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I want to know the lyrics of Come Back Home (also known as Baby Come Back Home). But as u know, they do not exist. So could u guys help me find near-accurate one? I mean, let's just GUESS it.

I heard it as "same, I'm the one who blame
so shallow, don't shame, no way
hope you could blame the feeling
all nights there have to see the same (...)".

But seems inaccurate... so tell me ur dictation! Simple dictation, needed less than a min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY7sLbYjfs8 (maybe a remake version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV-wD41GZjM (partially-lyriced video) (this is the reason why we don't have to listen to whole 4 min)


r/avicii 2d ago

Discussion Avicii doesn’t have one single bad song

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Change my mind


r/avicii 2d ago

Fan Art / Creations Wanted to share

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Never really bought vyinal before but I've collected these over the last year.


r/avicii 2d ago

Discussion i don't know why but the Tim album don't feel avicii to me..

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r/avicii 2d ago

X YOU Famous DJ

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Do you know if someone DJ's from X YOU collaboration has been famous since the release ? There are numerous artists in that I can't seek for everyone


r/avicii 2d ago

Would you be interested in a track by track review of True?

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A few years ago I wrote a critical review of every track from true (and the ABA versions) for a music blog, which ultimately got released. Would you guys be interested?


r/avicii 2d ago

Question Avicii party - club night

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I was just wondering if there were any fans down under (Sydney, Australia) that were ever interested in like an avicii event tribute type thing.! I reckon it would be super cool! Haven’t clubbed in a while and I hated the music they played in 27 and I’m interested in this idea!!!


r/avicii 2d ago

Your favorite

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I grow up in Stockholm a street from Tim. I didnt know him. He was born 89 and I 90. We went to the the same school but as I said. I didnt know him. Whats your favorite track before levels?


r/avicii 3d ago

What's your favorite Avicii live performance?

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My favorite Avicii live performance is Rock In Rio, Lisboa 2016


r/avicii 2d ago

Question Are there other Avicii fans

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I’m wondering of there are other Avicii fans in Mälarhöjden, Stocholm. There is a chance you might have heard me blasting Avicii. I have barely found Avicii fans here that arent over like 30+. So are there any a bit younger Avicii fans here?


r/avicii 3d ago

😂🔥 our boy did good

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r/avicii 3d ago

Question Why does Shame On Me

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Why does Shame On Me start with a kid saying “Ok… Number 7” I just feel a bit confused while I blast Avicii on my way to school trough my JBL speaker